• Technology

    Green Skies at Mach 5

    By Posted on 1.23.2008 24 Comments

    Modern air travel is a marvel. It's also a source of endless delay, annoyance and planet-killing greenhouse gases. A proposed hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner could change all that. The plane is Reaction Engines's A2 concept, a Mach-5 (3,400mph) craft for 300 passengers funded in part by the European Union's Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (Lapcat). Lapcat wants an airliner that can fly from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. If built, the A2 will do just that—without producing a trace of carbon emissions.

    2.19.2008 at 07:50pm - Comment by austincox

    Instead of shoving up monitors on the aircraft's inner shell, they could inmount one or two cameras into the outer shell and link those to the screens that are already in the passenger's seatbacks. That way, with only one or two cameras, every passenger can have a virtual window seat. The image quality doesn't even have to be good, the passengers will feel much more relieved just by knowing what's going on outside of their enclosed shell. -In Nomine Dei, is iuanam Patefacereto

  • Technology

    Green Skies at Mach 5

    By Posted on 1.23.2008 24 Comments

    Modern air travel is a marvel. It's also a source of endless delay, annoyance and planet-killing greenhouse gases. A proposed hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner could change all that. The plane is Reaction Engines's A2 concept, a Mach-5 (3,400mph) craft for 300 passengers funded in part by the European Union's Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (Lapcat). Lapcat wants an airliner that can fly from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. If built, the A2 will do just that—without producing a trace of carbon emissions.

    2.19.2008 at 07:49pm - Comment by austincox

    Instead of shoving up monitors on the aircraft's inner shell, they could inmount one or two cameras into the outer shell and link those to the screens that are already in the passenger's seatbacks. That way, with only one or two cameras, every passenger can have a virtual window seat. The image quality doesn't even have to be good, the passengers will feel much more relieved just by knowing what's going on outside of their enclosed shell. -In Nomine Dei, is iuanam Patefacereto



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